My artistic practice is based on three main features. First, I consider the creation of a painting as the building of a sculpture. I often use thick layers of paint to give it volume and the feeling of a third dimension. For this reason, I also use real objects or crystals inside the painting.

 

The second feature is the decomposition of nature into abstractions. The line between abstract and figurative art today is also very vague, but for me, it is important to relate this question to nature and not the social or technological environment. As post-internet art deals with a mixture of everything, we have already gotten used to this, but looking at nature as well as the environment for experimentation is quite rare nowadays. 

 

And the third thing that is connected with the two I spoke about before is the hedonism of watching the art. Then the conventionalities disappear, and the viewer does not need to analyze neither the art system nor the image itself; he or she can stick to the emotions and feelings coming from the inner self. I would call this process art meditation when you can watch the art piece and go to your own feelings.

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Alexandra Shatokhina